some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew. welcome to the big picture. a vote of uncertainty the second phase of egypt's pretty good constitution referendum begins amid a violent showdown between its backers and opponents. russia moves a step closer to banning child dolphins by u.s. citizens we look at the tragic cases of abuse of foster parents going away but surprisingly villeins punishments. and target choosing too often the israeli voters say they've had enough of condiments dropping and changing on a whim as they're asked to turn out yet again.

news twenty four hours a day watching t.v. . egypt is voting in the second round of the referendum on the draft constitution which is polarizing the country and which has triggered bloody street battles in the cities so today's vote on that is the missed infused documents which already won the approval in the first leg was preceded by another flash of anger with more on that from journalist bill true in current. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates our heads headed to the polling stations today to votes in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was the fact of the violence we saw clashes in this in egypt second city alexandria. all the front seats in those two against the front seats and this happened is the most staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution an implementation of

sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they've burned cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with tear gas beating seventy seven injured so this obviously comes on the after several instances of violence is in alexandria in a few weeks ago in cairo and from the presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms of people are saying here on the streets the country is divided those who are against the constitution say will only enforce a presidential dictatorship that it lacks a key social economic rights it was drafted by islamist dominated assembly for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy in the first round of course the votes of people voted to fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes votes this is largely because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the problem in the presidential elections leaving many to believe that

this will in fact be yes votes the opposition forces for their part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging really will just have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refused to back down. a five hundred dollars penalty for desecrating corpses coming up no jail time just a demotion and a cut on his friends list it's good to know that i don't soldier. also ahead of britain's increasingly cold feet of the new membership why it's rattling nerves across the atlantic. the lower house of parliament in moscow has passed a bill banning all adoptions of russian children by americans as part of a larger document aimed at preventing human rights abuses of russians abroad my

teacher karen looks at the cases which raise the alarm with the makers of. the adoption agreement that russia and the us signed in november was designed to provide mechanisms of oversight for russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children story here are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized once the adoption is finalized the child is considered the same as if he were born into that family one thousand russian children have died in the hands of their adoptive parents in the us in recent years there is untold numbers of children that are. enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their get better just surviving the case of. alan who was adopted from russia.

and she was placed in the home of the head a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told. reporters and such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing. that somehow the adoption agency that placed sure there would come back and check on her would even telephone and ask her how things were doing and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came to check on her much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges have shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year old jimmy jackal who was acquitted after he forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born with annual craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged

a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica bigley received probation after she went on a popular t.v. show and bragged of how she disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washing point maxine a bio of who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according florida quote it that the cases of abuse of prompted reaction from russia's top political brass. the judges will not even let us attend the u.s. trials as observers at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation of u.s. adoptions seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around

a third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year but the latest developments over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there is a flight is chance for an orphan to find a happy home they should be given that chance is undoubted but just as indisputable seems your given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adoptive children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm going to. greek banks are lining up for a bailout of the room in athens that. is the country's biggest banks today these no choice left but to the bank for another rescue. and barack obama makes his choice for the next secretary of state john kerry who want to tone down america's military might in foreign policy. reduction in the five hundred dollars

pay. but that's what it will cost a u.s. marine sergeant for desecrating the bodies of dead taliban soldiers he was found guilty of year in eighteen on them posing with their corpses tied us kind and diplomatic on right because the people of afghanistan feel a lot of anger with the behavior of american troops oh i was in afghanistan last week and i talked to a lot of people in afghanistan and they are very. they are outraged about these things that our u.s. military people have been doing to them the brutal slaughter of people i mean over and above that where you have sergeant bales' it has. killed sixteen afghans you have this incident the u.s. military personnel the marines urinating on the bodies. taleban. of the issue of the koran being on a military base so afghans are very upset about what the u.s.

military is doing their. presence of obama has nominated senator john kerry as a candidate for the job of america's top diplomat a vietnam veteran and antiwar activist could take over from hillary clinton who promised to stand down next year i'm going even to defense on this senior fellow at the independent institute believes that kerry can dampen down washington's foreign policy. i think he's actually a better choice than susan rice i think he'll be more restrained in advocating u.s. military intervention since he was a vietnam war veteran now he's been for some wars but he has been overall i think he's been a restraining influence on the on the u.s.'s chairman of the foreign relations committee and of course he has a lot of experience he has combat experience in vietnam and many of the people who were in vietnam who john mccain is the big exception are more restrained in their

foreign policy they're not as excited to see to send u.s. service men and women into harm's way and i think that that's probably a good thing at this stage well meanwhile deadlock over debts and spending is seeing the u.s. hurtle towards a fiscal cliff but with that widespread tax rises and government cuts on new year's day with the talk of the fast approaching deadline congress members have gone on holiday wearing oftenest has been out and about to find anyone who thinks they deserve the break. as many hard working americans look forward to taking a break from the grind so does congress did they deserve a holiday this week let's talk about that we're talking today about congress because they're take their break right now you're already rolling your eyes i've

only just said the word awful it's awful what you can do they don't do anything and they're taking a break well yeah because that's what they do they don't do anything and they're going to do you think that they have been working hard enough to deserve a holiday never and i won't say anymore because it'll be a bad word of those going to go on kick the can down the road a little bit for the next year yeah and nothing's going to change something may change but there's going to lighten up that we deal with next year so you work more than one hundred forty days a year so everyone deserves some time off the extent of it that's another story so yeah i do think they should get a break but with the fiscal cliff being what it is they should probably work through the holidays which do you think that they know what the answer is and they're just kind of posturing because you know republicans have to say that they're not going to raise taxes democrats have to say they're not going to make cuts but at the end of the day they're going to compromise absolutely they have to so what with this posturing bad enough of that why don't they just get real. i think part of politics is being reelected and so the politicians need to seem to

their constituents. loyal and sometimes beyond reasonable bounds are we that stupid . some people or what the answer. i think the answer is is is more more public scrutiny of their performance or public involvement and in the process and does that involve more intelligent public to get involved a better informed public and a public that is this. attention to what these people are doing so maybe a media that's less bought by corporate interests that keep feeding into the political machine that would be helping the bottom line is no congress does not deserve a holiday but they probably are going to enjoy more vacation then we commoners could ever imagine so just remember that if you take your measly vacation this year .

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around who it is gather the tens and move to another pasha they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter and then children for them. but the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds in the new songs a similar. choose your language because we can without any federal custody feel so much i told her that. she was going to consent michael that choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that in high life chose access to.

if you. eat. here without a more international news for you now israelis are expected to trudge back to the polling stations again next month a parliamentary election that's happening earlier than planned no government has survived a full term in office for decades and reports voting for teague is rife. call

us money as you know him back in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant and his option and minister of justice i have even held this post single tenuously but it doesn't mean i'm talented it just shows that the system is so messed up the toy. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as. a young citizen ghost elections so many times who starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not for nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from

eighty to sixty four percent with. kirillov's eventually as it was. but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted. him a prime minister says he must call for elections because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his government and we will act as if. we really say there's no problem with our system. critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. behind a sham of the system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra rightists right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's minor ritual

crissy the minority rule with the majority. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan. today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and in the long term planning he's no longer there. what many of these people want is a complete overhaul of the system but parliamentary elections slated for early next year israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they tolerance is running thin with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with its government's performance points here r.t. tel aviv britain's resurgent euro skepticism is now even getting us a little worried washington is afraid of losing its influential ally in the

european union and is even warning of consequences if the u.k. in the of the bloc political analyst robert oulds says it's britain's business alone. i think the people in britain really will make their own mind up about a future we don't need what to don't need to be told what to do by someone from another country be that the united states or or all the president of the european commission for that matter really president obama needs to understand is that the european union is actually damaging for europe it's actually undermining the economy of different member states many member states are suffering a very harshly as a result of these economic policies policies which he has thoughtfully rejected and he wouldn't like to be told how to manage his economy by an unaccountable bureaucracy like other countries in europe countries in the eurozone are being told how to manage their own affairs having to hack into have all things over to be forced upon them so really he needs to perhaps learn a little bit more about the undemocratic nature of the european union before

commenting or four of greece's largest banks are queuing up for bailouts of the posting huge losses this year the reason though could be their own government or for lenders that took hits during a state debt buyback scheme a greek economist in a says it's left the country in even worse shape. it's not the banks that failed it's. the economic situation that was created that has decimated it the greek banking sector which was much animal when among the most resilient. in europe it was not it never exposed to toxic instruments. fine but then. we had forty thousand small businesses closing closing these loans. unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really on the one hand australia to you on the other

hand bank in ability to. provide life we do for the much. in chile a long running street battles over education reform have seen more trouble in the capital hundreds of students have again clashed with police there was being than a year and a half of protest leaders of the movement say they're fed up with low standards at private universities and students one their major victory two days ago when chile's justice minister has ties to one of the colleges was forced to resign over corruption scandal. in central china firefighters struggled for several hours to contain a massive blaze which raged through a sixteen story office building as the one man a security guard is still trapped inside around fifty people staying in a hotel on the upper floors were evacuated to safety over a dozen people were hospitalized for the facts of smoke inhalation. the

space capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully dock to the international space station it took two days for the craft to make it into position four hundred ten kilometers above the russian canadian and american crew joined up with three others already at the station where they'll stay until march rocket blasted off on wednesday from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan. now the biggest stories that were missed in twenty twelve and what to look forward to next year in breaking the set that's next.

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a fan of the world and all and then i'll be explaining what the mayans actually meant and why we will all be here come tomorrow so let's break the set. another lucky if we're able to do is have you ever seen anything like i'm drunk. so last week i had great pleasure of having academy award winning director oliver stone and historian peter because next on the show we're here to talk about their new showtime series and book called the untold history of the united states but the part you didn't see is the discussion we had after that interview in which i got their opinion on obama's policies the current state of play and united states take a look. so it took both of you four years to produce this series and almost five almost five. and you have a chapter called obama management of a wounded and pire where you get

a harsh critique of the obama administration what are your eyes has been most troubling aspects of his presidency all over. well i think that under the disguise of sheep's clothing he's been a wolf. because the nightmare of the bush presidency preceded him and people forgave him a lot he was a great hope for change the color of his skin the bug bringing in the internationalism the globalism seemed all of it and he's an intelligent man but he has taken the old the bush changes and he's basically put them into the establishment he's codify them that's what's so we're going into a second administration that is living outside the law and does not respect the laws of foundation of our of our system and he is a constitutional lawyer you know without the law there is it's a law the jungle nuremberg existed for a reason after that and there was a reason to have trials as a reason for due process.